What is Spirit Releasement

I am a clinical hypnotherapist who happens to specialize in shamanic practice and other metaphysical themes - and who, primarily, out of all the energies I work with, uses vortex energy as a method of clearing out unwanted and controlling entities or attachments taken innocently by us into our auric fields. While I have the occasional session with a client who wishes to stop smoking, lose weight or transform a belief or habit, the majority of people who come and see me are thinking about issues that extend beyond this current lifetime.

On an energetic level, something is shifting around them or within them enough for them to raise questions and step into the courage it often takes to lift back the layers and see what's attempting to make its presence felt.

The presenting issues can often differ from what is really going on under the surface of our consciousness, of course.

One client, 'Rosemary', came to see me because she was feeling lacklustre, her energy dissipated and her head foggy. What she wanted out of her session with me, was clarity, a sense of direction.

A hypnotherapist has a huge responsibility to not have their own agenda out there, when working with a client. The psycho-spiritual hypnotherapy training I received works with honouring the process of a client, to be in integrity, and to avoid leading and closed questioning techniques. The power of suggestion, especially within a hypnotherapist's hands, can often result in a heavy-handed and manipulative approach, a situation in which the hypnotherapist holds the power, and the client, none.

This is not therapeutic, useful or even satisfying for the client - we all have to put the work in ourselves if we are truly committed to any form of growth. It's so rewarding to reach the top of the mountain under the strength and focus of one's own courage, isn't it? This picture is similar to the journey within a hypnotherapy session. Hypnotherapy is an energetic process in which the client goes back in spirit to bring back energy left in the past, back into the present.

So, all I do is open the door and hold up a light for my clients to see their own way, and to walk their own steps.

They hold the power, and the options of stopping the session, moving along at a faster or slower pace than I might be considering, and exploring other doorways and paths if they so choose. I am simply the tour guide, holding the space for the client herself to delve into her own intuitive processes and recover the jewels single-handedly.

As I work within the fields of soul retrieval, spirit releasement, past life and the new, exciting area of interlife work, I am always on the lookout for certain other energies to pop up during a session.

So, a client, presenting a low energy state, as 'Rosemary' was that day, might indicate a wide range of different causes - from depression and illness through to low spirit energy or, in this case, the lodging of an entity within her.

There is a precise process within spirit releasement hypnotherapy that allows me to discover and identify the presence of attached discarnate spirits or entities. Having done this, I dialogue with the spirit, and discover its history and reasons for being there.

Now, when one thinks of 'entity', all sorts of dramatic images are conjured up - twisting heads et al.

The truth is, an entity is actually a dark clump of energy that dissipates our own energy. It can often have a persona, with its own name and face, and usually moves into our space when we are at a low point in our lives.

One reason entities move in with us is because the low, depressed or 'negative' energy we are putting out, is attractive to their vibrations. It's one of the Natural Laws - one we put out, we get back, remember?

This is why it is crucial to remember that every thoughtform is powerful, and that it is in the accumulation of our 'positive' or 'negative' thoughts that results in things happening to us and around us. It's therefore important to practice releasing 'negative'energy as cleanly and as quickly as we can, rather than allowing anger, resentment or grief to build up and congeal within our bodies in readiness for a future illness or entity to thrive upon it.

In my conversations with entities during hypnotherapy sessions, I have learned that, for the most part, they join with the client during a traumatic time, often in childhood.

After 'Rosemary' had settled into a light trance - a gentle state of relaxation in which part of you is here in present time, and part of you is not - I began to discover, through various questions and intuitions, where her session would lead us today.

It soon came to my notice that I was having this session with more than one person. At first the entity was reluctant to talk to me at all, and a process of building up a relationship of trust began. Later, when the entity felt more secure with me, he introduced himself as Tarquin, and told me that he had attached himself to 'Rosemary' when she was eight. I have heard this many times from these spirits that, at the time of attachment to a human being, regardless of the human's age, these entities have felt needed.

This was true in Tarquin's case, also. "She needed me," he explained. "There was no-one else to protect her from everything that was happening at home."

So the initial intentions of an entity, when it moves in, are to help. There is a sense that the human being cannot do it alone, and the sense of responsibility for the welfare of the person is assumed by the entity.

Tarquin expressed his frustration with working with "such a difficult person", who never listened to him anymore, and that he was beginning to feel all his efforts were no longer valued.

As my goal, as hypnotherapist, is to convince the discarnate spirit to be released into the Light, and out of the client's energy field, so that she can be freed up to continue her growth and reclaim her energy, a counselling process follows.

Often, as a clairvoyant and clairsentient, my work in the past has involved working with 'trapped' souls - belonging to people who have died very suddenly, and who are still in shock and disbelief about their transition into spirit from the physical world.

The process of having them begin to notice their choices and to move towards Light, are almost the same for entity work. Gradually, a spark of understanding appears as they realise that they do not have to sit in this place of confusion and pain, and they automatically then begin to see loved ones in spirit and spirit guides who are waiting to guide them on.

This happened with Tarquin. Through our process, he learned to trust me enough to trust my vision of the Light and the Guides waiting to take his hand. At first, he was deeply fearful, like a child who is too scared to move on, and too reluctant to stay. But finally, and ever so gently he found some courage, grasped the hand of a Guide he now trusted, and moved out of 'Rosemary's' energy field and out of the room.

For a moment, my hypnotherapy room was suffused with light. Then the energy shifted as I sealed in the protection around 'Rosemary', myself and my space, and gently drew my peaceful client back into present time and space, back into the room.

She returned, feeling hazy, and not recalling anything other than my voice suggesting she relax at the start of our session together. After a few minutes, she added that she felt empty, as if she was missing something, and that she felt a little sad.

Often this can be a natural feeling after spirit releasement. Unsurprising, really, when one considers that the two of you have been together, as one, for often years and years. It can feel a little like losing a leg - it will itch for a while and you will feel the loss.

But as 'Rosemary' continues to build up her energy again, she will learn to fill that space with lighter, more powerful energy. Whenever we 'clean' out our space and let things or people go that no longer serve us to hold on to, we have the choice to fill that space with more deserving energy that assists us in moving ahead.